Linux-Hardware Digest #326, Volume #9 Mon, 1 Feb 99 02:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: which motherboard has integrated graphics card and nic? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: UltraDMA in RedHat 5.2 & Mouse Scrolling ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Turtle Beach Montego ("Bram v.Dartel")
Re: printer problems (iBNSLo)
CD-ROM can not mount music CD (carl)
Re: Iomega DITTO MAX woes (Bruce Barnett)
Re: CD-ROM can not mount music CD (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: CD-ROM can not mount music CD (Jeremy Nickolet)
eepro100.o: init_module: Device or resource busy (iBNSLo)
Creative Labs SB PCI128 and 3DFX Banshee drivers ("Warren Postma")
DPT locks dual P2 ("Miguel")
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) (John Varela)
Re: Winmodems (John Thompson)
Mounting a second drive ("M. Leo Cooper")
bt848 tv capture card help please. ("karlo")
Which SCSI-Card? (Eric Wick)
Re: ATI Xpert@Play AGP vs. ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP (Jeff Kay)
HP OfficeJet Interpreter ("James A. Cleland")
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Chris Lee)
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which motherboard has integrated graphics card and nic?
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:33:33 GMT
stephen wrote:
> Which PII motherboard has integrated graphics
> and nic? Must work well with Linux. If it has
> integrated SCSI, that's even better.
I�d suggest to have a closer look at the Asus P2B series:
http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/index2.html
The P2B-D2, for example, has onboard SCSI, LAN and Video.
Moreover, the P2B achieved one of the highest rankings in
the comparison of various Intel 440BX boards on Tom�s
Hardware guide:
http://www5.tomshardware.com/releases/98q4/981109/index.html
HTH,
Thomas
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UltraDMA in RedHat 5.2 & Mouse Scrolling
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:54:06 +1100
Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Kyle Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) My UltraDMA drive was not supported in RH5.1. Now that I am
> > upgrading to RH5.2, will I have UltraDMA drive support?
>
> I think that's dependent on the kernel. There's a patch for 2.0.*
> kernels, but I think 2.2.1 already includes support, so you may as
> well get that.
>
I have a rh5.2 installation on a UDMA drive. Using kernel 2.0.36. I
actually installed rh first with UDMA disabled in the bios, after
reading all these problems with UDMA. Tried to enable UDMA again from
the bios, there were no problems for me.
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From: "Bram v.Dartel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turtle Beach Montego
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:03:04 +0100
What can i do, or where can i find a driver, for the TBS Montego 3d.....
Pleez help i`m a newbie with Linux.
Greetz,
X-Factor (T_c_$)
The Cracking $yndicate
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From: iBNSLo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer problems
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:30:27 -0800
steve winston wrote:
>
> I am having trouble setting up printers with Redhat 5.2 on a Micron Pentium 233
> mmx. I have an hp400 deskjet that works great on an old Compaq 486 also running
> 5.2. I have tried both the hp400 and an epson 400 on the Pentium with no luck.
> Neither will print consistently. At first, printtool wouln't even recognize the
> parallel port. I thought maybe a hardware problem and bought a card with two
> more ports. Now, printtool will spot the printers on the ports but it wont
> print anything although it does print to spool. Actually, the epson printed for
> awhile but only when labled a deskjet500 HP.
> Helphelp, steve w
Same problem here with the deskjet 400, sometimes i can print test
pages, but that's all! before i switched this machine over to RH5.2, it
was on winblows95, & the deskjet 400 refused to work at all in windows
using DJ400 drivers (had to use generic deskjet drivers, still it gave
printer not responding errors while it printed) anyway, it worked fine
(no prob's whatSOever) before i put in a new motherboard...so what i'm
saying is, have you tried it in a different computer running RH5.2?
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From: carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.dev.newbie,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: CD-ROM can not mount music CD
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 03:21:01 +0000
today I bought a brand new CD-ROM. after I took out the old CD-ROM and
install the new one into the computer.
After boot up and log in as a supter usr, I try to mount CD-ROM with
music CD inside.
I get the following error message:
" mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
many mounted file systems"
I have no problem when I try to mount CD-ROM with non-music CD inside.
I have no problem using music CD in win95.
so I suspect that it is linux configuration at fault here.
does anyone know what to do?
thanks
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From: Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.tape,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Iomega DITTO MAX woes
Date: 1 Feb 1999 03:46:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Did you ever determine why you were getting the "unable to grab address at
> 0x03BC for <null>" error in the logfile? I get the same problem for
> 0x378.
Nope. I have no idea. I sent mail to Claus-Justus, hoping for a
clue.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.dev.newbie,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD-ROM can not mount music CD
Date: 1 Feb 1999 03:50:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
carl allegedly wrote:
>today I bought a brand new CD-ROM. after I took out the old CD-ROM and
>install the new one into the computer.
>After boot up and log in as a supter usr, I try to mount CD-ROM with
>music CD inside.
>I get the following error message:
>" mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
>many mounted file systems"
>
>I have no problem when I try to mount CD-ROM with non-music CD inside.
>
>I have no problem using music CD in win95.
>
>so I suspect that it is linux configuration at fault here.
>
>does anyone know what to do?
Yeah, don't mount music CDs, you don't have to mount 'em to play 'em ;)
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: Jeremy Nickolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.dev.newbie,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD-ROM can not mount music CD
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 03:51:41 GMT
carl wrote:
> today I bought a brand new CD-ROM. after I took out the old CD-ROM and
> install the new one into the computer.
> After boot up and log in as a supter usr, I try to mount CD-ROM with
> music CD inside.
> I get the following error message:
> " mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
> many mounted file systems"
>
> I have no problem when I try to mount CD-ROM with non-music CD inside.
>
> I have no problem using music CD in win95.
>
> so I suspect that it is linux configuration at fault here.
>
> does anyone know what to do?
>
> thanks
you don't need to mount the music cd to play tunes. Try using xplaycd and
see if that works, you may need to chmod 666 /dev/cdrom to be able to use
it as a normal user.
Jeremy
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From: iBNSLo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eepro100.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:45:38 -0800
(can't get this damn Intel Pro10+ to work...)
Redhat's 5.2 hardware compat. list says to use the eepro100 driver for
my Intel Pro10+ISA, so...
# insmod eepro100
/lib/modules/preferred/net/eepro100.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
I keep booting into dos & using softset2 to change the nic's config &
try different setups, right now it's on io-300 irq-5...(i keep finding
things that say to use the EtherExpress xxxxxxx on the port 300/270/320
or 340, i've tried them all)
anyway, i tried,
# insmod eepro100 io=300
/lib/modules/preferred/net/eepro100.o: symbol for parameter io not found
now when i use linuxconf to set it up, & specify one or both IO or
IRQ, i get the message, eepro100.o: symbol for parameter io (or) irq
not found, when linux boots & shuts down...idea's??????
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From: "Warren Postma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Labs SB PCI128 and 3DFX Banshee drivers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:10:54 -0500
It's been an utterly frustrating day in Linux land for me.
I am currently thinking that I am stuck using Windoze until I see a stable
release of RedHat or SuSE or OpenLinux that will support all my hardware. I
wish I was a better Linux programmer and I'd just dig in and write some darn
hardware drivers myself. I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the different sound
systems for linux, and the fact that the community isn't uniting behind a
single sound system for Linux that will be packaged with all the
distributions, and the slowness with which ideas such as VESA frame
buffering are being adopted into XFree86. How ever will Linux keep up with
the flood of new hardware if we don't at least unify our attack at these two
key parts of system hardware? Must I purchase a sound system for Linux to
get SB PCI 128 support? Yuck.
Today I upgraded my system. I had an aging Soundblaster 2x CD-ROM (circa
1994) and it's companion, a
16 bit ISA soundblaster 16 sound card (also circa 1994 ), and an aging ATI
mach64 2mb (circa 1995).
I put in a nice new ACER 32x IDE cd-rom (much quieter than your average 24X+
noisy cd-roms), a nice
new Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card, and a Creative Labs 3DFX
Banshee PCI video card.
Goodbye to the wacky Soundblaster CD Rom interface, and the awful FM
synthesis of the SB 16, and the color depth limits of 2 MB of video memory.
Hello fast IDE CD-ROM, Quadraphonic Sound, and Wavetable Synthesis, much
faster video and a uniform 32 bit Color Depth, and Need For Speed III and
Quake II play really nice now.
All went well in Windows , but now Linux is just about inoperable. Not only
can I not get XWindows or sound working, but I couldn't get the CD-ROM to
work, and I messed up my system trying, so I had to re-install Linux. In
doing so I also broke my ethernet setup and can't get it working again. No
details right now, I'm too frustrated. It turns out that neither my new
video card nor my sound card are supported by Red Hat 5.1 out of the box,
and it appears they aren't supported in Red Hat 5.2 either.
I did a cursory check for support information on both cards before I bought
them, but apparently not enough to notice that
neither one is supported by any out-of-the-box distribution. It seems that
some people have got their hardware working by
installing This That And The Other Hack and it looks like I could try to go
and do likewise, but that's not the way I like to
run my system. I'm a little sad that I have bought too far up the
technology curve and I'm apparently beyond help until our friendly
enterprising Driver Gurus have time to catch up with this new hardware.
This whole thing is certainly discouraging me. I guess I should do a little
more hardware research before I go and upgrade my computer. I didn't buy an
ATI card this time around because they have been so bloody obstinate in
refusing to release specs on their TV tuner hardware, and I chose not to
support them.I saw lots of positive messages that 3DFX could work in Linux,
so I went ahead and bought a 3DFX card without checking if XFree86 actually
has a stable 3DFX driver yet. Oops. But then, this is how I learn: I screw
up wildly on my first attempt, and then hopefully I am a little wiser next
time.
Arghh!
Warren Postma
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Miguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DPT locks dual P2
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 02:11:57 -0200
I am facing a problem with my dual Pentium II machine: The system just
freeze and the only key that works is the hardware reset. This lock state do
not follow a pattern, it just happen with any users logged in, any
processing load or any filesystem access. And the time interval may take one
hour or a couple days.
My system configuration is:
-ASUS mainboard with Adaptec 2940 ( 2880 controller ) on-board;
-Dual Pentium II 333 MHz;
-256 MB SDRAM;
-Matrox Millenium 8MB video adapter;
-DPT PM3334UW RAID controller;
-3 Seagate HDD in RAID 5 configuration connected on DPT;
-Exabyte tape drive connected on Adaptec;
-JAZ 2 GB connected on Adaptec;
-RH 52;
-2.0.36 kernel with SMP and EATA_DMA driver compiled in;
-aic7xxx module loaded in rc.sysinit.
What am I doing wrong or missing about the system configuration.
What could be cause that system locks.
Thanks in advance,
Miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Varela)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice
capable/fax modem software for use in warp4?))
Date: 1 Feb 1999 03:58:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:08:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Himmelman) wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:38:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) wrote:
> > >Too fregging bad, I've had the joy of using X2 for almost a year... With
> > >free upgrades of course...
>
> > How would this help someone who's ISP didn't support X2?!?
>
> Did you shop for an ISP the same way you shop for modems? My ISP
> supported X2 right out of the gate.
I believe Mindspring uses Couriers -- some kind of USR at any rate -- but I
*never* connected faster than 28.8 with my 3COM V.90 until the phone company
parked some trucks out on the main street for a week last November and my
connect speed suddenly jumped to 53.3. So having X2 the day it came out or
changing ISPs wouldn't have helped a bit.
Circumstances differ.
--
John Varela
(delete . between mind and spring to e-mail me)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:56:56 -0600
Otto Bruggeman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anybody tell me EXACTLY why winmodems don't work under Linux ??? That's
> all i want to know, nothing else. So don't start a discussion about why
> winmodems suck and stuff like that....
Winmodems lack a UART, the chip that does the translation
from digital (inside the computer) to analog (for
transmission on the phone line) and perhaps other hardware
and instead use a software driver to do this work. There's
no reason in principle why such a driver couldn't be written
for linux or other non-Windows operating systems, but the
vendors of these devices haven't bothered to do so; nor have
they documented how their drivers work so other people might
write such drivers for non-Windows operating systems.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: "M. Leo Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting a second drive
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:00:14 -0700
Adding a second IDE hard drive to your system
=============================================
1) The physical mount.
Copy down the specs from the label on the drive.
Make sure it's jumpered as "slave".
Mount the drive in a spare drive bay, securing it with several screws.
Attach an IDE cable from the IDE port on the motherboard.
2) Update the BIOS with the info for the new drive.
It may autodetect, but don't count on it. Check the BIOS settings to make
certain. Setting the 'LBA' option not necessary.
3) Partitioning.
Boot up Linux and partition the new drive:
As root, fdisk /dev/hdb.
[primary partition, Linux native]
4) Format the new drive.
mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb1
[verbose output and check for bad blocks]
5) Create a mount point.
Decide where you will be mounting it and create a mount point.
For example, if you will mount it as /mnt/drive2, as root,
cd /mnt
mkdir drive2
chmod 777 drive 2 [makes the new drive accessible to ordinary users.]
6) Testing.
As root, mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2.
If no error messages, cd /mnt/drive2, and try creating a directory and
writing a couple of files.
If it works, hurray!
Continue to the final steps.
7) Modify /etc/fstab.
Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2 ext2 defaults 1 1
8) Reboot and see if the new drive automounts.
The Hard-Disk-Upgrade miniHOWTO
(http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html), by
Yves Bellefeuille contains much of the above info, but in a somewhat
different context.
They said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied, "Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."
---Wallace Stevens
===============================================
+ http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/ +
===============================================
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From: "karlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bt848 tv capture card help please.
Date: 1 Feb 1999 05:54:20 GMT
Could someone please direct me somewhere I can get the drivers and software
for the bt848 based tv capture card to work under linux.
thanks
karlo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wick)
Subject: Which SCSI-Card?
Date: 1 Feb 1999 05:55:35 GMT
Hello,
which SCSI-Card can i buy today for an ISA (EISA) Board to get SCSI-2 Support?
The System is equipped with only one SCSI-HD to boot under Linux.
First i've looked at the Dawicontrol, but the AM33Cxxx is not supported.
Any Ideas?
Greetings
Eric Wick
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From: Jeff Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert@Play AGP vs. ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 06:31:37 +0000
Brad Nixon wrote:
> I've got RedHat 5.1, X 3.3.3.1 and an Xpert@Play98 AGP and I can't get it to work
> properly. The closest I've got so far is 800x600, 256 colors. Even then, though,
> the screen is divided into 3 columns and flickers seriously.
>
> If anyone else has got it working with this card, please let me know. I wonder if
> RedHat 5.2 would make a difference...
Hi Brad I have it running on RH 5.1 under whatever X comes with Rh5.1....
Same card ATI Xpert 98 AGP 8 meg
Xconfiguator had a bit of trouble with the card ( couldn't detect the ram ) but
aside from that it works.... now I get the same problem as you the coloum divided
screen or I did until my monitor blew and was replaced ( dont worry it was quite an
old monitor and it wasn't the first to go and the first never ran linux so )
Anyways.... do this when you run startx
press: crtl-alt-+ (if you press this again and again it will just cycle
through all possible resolutons and has the added benefit that it clears up the
divided column problem or it did for me... you can then use Xvidtune to adjust your
settings to permenantly correct this problem --I never did ).
Also to enable more than 256 colours you need to tell X to start using more like so
startx -- -bpp 16 ( or 8, 24, 32 --whichever you like )
Cheers
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From: "James A. Cleland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP OfficeJet Interpreter
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 01:38:34 -0500
I heard there was one available at hpoj.bst.tl, but I can't seem to
resolve that hostname. Anyone know where to find an OfficeJet
interpreter for Linux?
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.modems
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: 28 Jan 1999 17:31:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Not Really.......
>There are just too many vague generalities and too many combinations.
>Its more like a specification than a standard.
>I've found boxes and interfaces that logically should be dce and are dte
and vice
>versa.
>I've found interfaces on boxes that defy all logic as to which signals are
on
>which pins of the RS-232? interface.
>I think this obfuscation is deliberate on the part of the manufacturer.
>Why? You tell me?
>Rick
Something just occured to me. You're not trying to FUD us by trying to
describe null-modem adapters/cables are you?
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